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Karl Hufbauer 1937-2020 It is with heavy heart that I share the news of Karl Hufbauer’s passing on January 28th. Karl was a friend and I had the pleasure of sharing a studio with him for many years. We met nearly 20 years ago. I was moving a newly acquired piece of basalt on the sidewalk […]
BOD meeting 8-23-17 3:40pm BOD Members Present:Carl NelsonPatty McPheeKen BarnesBen MeffordPat Barton General members present:Renee RobertsCyra Jane HobsonKirsten Rayhawk Oak Harbor event – should we sponsor/support this as an event? Yes. Should we extend our insurance for this event? Event duration Sept 1st to Dec 31st. Only the extent our insurance covers this sort of thing […]
As relayed by Ken Barnes, dutiful notetaker, January 23, 2016 Batya Friedman hosted the second discussion at her home about the artist process. We had comfortable seating, were surrounded by wonderful art, and had little treats and drinks to get us warmed up. Wayne Maslin opened the discussion with the topic he called “In Defense […]
By Ken Barnes It was July and I was starting to get worried. I had a show scheduled for December and no work yet finished. One piece was started. I had zero time for a week of socializing at Camp Brotherhood, no matter how much I loved these people and this event. My home studio […]
by Ken Barnes Clam. Not quite the one you’ll find on a beach. Liberated from a basalt end cut, $100 at Marenakos. Sat in my sketchbook for 7 years; originally an appendage of a planned bench. I have had a hundred bench ideas, a couple of them even good, but I just don’t seem to be […]
Ed Note: You may remember a question that circulated on the NWSSA email asking about power, tank size and general information by someone wanting to buy an air compressor. In case you didn’t write down all the good information Ken Barnes gave in his reply, here’s your hard copy. CFM (cubic feet per minute) […]
Working Environment The carving area is an open field. They have run underground conduit and brought up little service panels every 50 feet or so. From these panels they run 2 or 3 cables with a double outlet. The workhorse grinders we use are 9 inch Bosch electric with 8 inch blades. For some reason […]
Editors: When we left Ken Barnes in the last issue, he was describing a typical carving day in Vietnam. Let’s listen in again as Ken picks up the narrative of his unforgettable trip. Typical day continued Each of us had at least one helper and one sun shade. The sun shade structure was a flat […]
Editor: Ken is a very prolific writer, so we will let him tell his story in three consecutive issues. So, settle back and enjoy Ken’s affable manner as he describes his five weeks of carving in a strange and surprising land. When writing about sculpting in Vietnam it is hard to write about carving stone […]
My eyes were bleary from train-lag. I had been in Europe for two weeks already, sliding the slopes of the Alps, taking in the tourist sights of Paris, with a short weekend hop to visit friends in Cologne. But the overnight train from Germany to Italy had not been as restful as I wanted. I had enjoyed the ride immensely as Florian, my […]
On Saturday, October 7, our granite group piled into cars with prybars, gloves, heavy boots, hand dolleys, an electric winch and lunch, to rescue forgotten river boulders from their cavities on the shore of mountain streams. We had selected the finest day of the fall to do this. We wanted to avoid both rain and breaking a sweat. The first stop for the […]
Things are proceeding with the idea for a sculpture center. We have met or talked with a number of people and groups about the concept, and are exploring potential sites and funding. We have created a separate group identity, the Stone Artists Guild, to pursue the sculpture center idea. This group can be a part of NWSSA should NWSSA decide a sculpture […]
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